1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it!

Oh! not handsome—not at all handsome. I thought him very plain at first, but I do not think him so plain now. One does not, you know, after a time.

Yes,” replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, “but that was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

I dearly love a laugh.

But I will not repine. It cannot last long. He will be forgot, and we shall all be as we were before.

She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart.